Crackpots Curtail War Thinking In Diet Fad Talk
Houston writer roasts diet fads and quack cures as mass hysteria. He recalls crackpot editors and faith healers, comparing potato eye remedies to Charlie Hohensee preaching longevity. The piece satirizes reliance on psychiatry and bizarre health trends as a dangerous social blur.
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Congress
Half Billion Dollar Waterway Bill Heads To Action by Senate
The House added about 52.7 million dollars to the Army Engineers budget for construction and investigations and the Mississippi River, lifting the total to roughly 526.22 million dollars, about 13 million above Eisenhower’s request. Senate actions may push the total higher as lawmakers seek further increases to the public works bill.
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House
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Ellender
D-La
Senate Civil Works Appropriations Subcommittee
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Dardenelles
Eufaula
Arkansas River
Arkansas
Oklahoma
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Venice
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Mississippi River
Turtle Creek
Kansas
Kansas Benefits by Act On Reclamation Budget
Washington reports Kansas gained full restoration of the Reclamation Bureau budget after the House rebuffed Cuts by restoring the request to its original size. Allocations include Bostwick 6.784 million, Kirwin Unit 1.4 million, Webster Unit 3.5 million, with smaller figures proposed but rejected: Bostwick six million, Kirwin 1 million, Webster 3.429 million.
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Kansas
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Reclamation Bureau
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Appropriations
Bostwick
Kirwin
Webster
West Germany marks second anniversary of June 17 revolt
West Germany and West Berlin observed the revolt anniversary with a national holiday. The Soviet Zone border police were doubled in the divided city as warnings of provocations from the West were aired. Anti-Communists blamed dissatisfaction with Red rule for the uprising that spread through East Germany. a government bulletin recalled 267 killed and 1,071 injured in 1953.
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West Germany
West Berlin
Soviet Zone
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East Germany
Two New Members Added To Survey Staff at K U
Jane Armstrong and Halsey Miller were added to the full time staff of the State Geological Survey at Kansas University. Armstrong joins the petrography division and Miller becomes a member of the subsurface department.
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Jane Armstrong
Halsey Miller
State Geological Survey
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Miss Armstrong
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Geology graduates from 1955 earn degrees and publish works
Miss Armstrong the sole woman geologist graduate in 1955 works part time while starting a project on clay minerals in Pennsylvanian shales of eastern Kansas and lives in Russell. Miller from Westville New Jersey holds a Temple B A and Yale M S and pursues a PhD. He published a paper on eocene New Jersey reptiles and cataloged Cretaceous and Tertiary vertebrates. his fossil collection of 2,000 items is at Yale Peabody Museum.
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Kansas
Russell
Miller
Westville
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Temple University
Yale University
New Jersey
Delaware
Peabody Museum
Paintings at K U Museum Display Largest Sargent Portrait
Five paintings were borrowed from Nelson Art Gallery to Kansas University Museum of Art display through September. Three works are loaned from IBM, while three others come from the permanent collection. The largest piece is John Singer Sargent's Countess of Latham portrait, a nine foot tall painting.
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Nelson Art Gallery
Kansas City, Mo
International Business Machines Co
Countess of Latham
John Singer Sargent
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